Job Title: Jr. Full Stack EngineerLocation-Type: Hybrid – Owings Mills, MD (2 days/week onsite)Work Hours: 40 hours/week, 9 AM–5 PM ESTStart Date Is: ASAP (approximately 3–4 weeks from offer)Duration: 6-Month ContractCompensation Range: $40/hr - $48/hr W-2Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401KMust be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
Job Description:
- Join an established Agile development team supporting a self-service advisor dashboard and the backend workflow applications that power it.
- Develop new features and functionality for existing applications, with approximately 80% of the work focused on backend development and 20% on frontend development.
- Build and enhance Java/Spring Boot applications, REST APIs, and microservices.
- Contribute to frontend functionality using Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Troubleshoot bugs, investigate technical issues, and implement effective solutions.
- Work with SQL databases to query and analyze data and support basic scripts or data migrations.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, user story estimation, retrospectives, and technical refinement.
- Translate requirements and user stories into working functionality, taking ownership of assigned work from development through testing.
- Collaborate with senior engineers, QA/SDET, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Scrum team members.
Requirements:
- 3 years of professional software development experience.
- 3 years of hands-on Java development experience, ideally with Java 8 .
- Experience developing applications with Spring and/or Spring Boot.
- Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
- 1 year of experience with Angular and working knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Working knowledge of SQL, including querying and analyzing data.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment using Jira and/or Rally.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to take requirements or user stories and independently translate them into working solutions.
- Proactive communicator who takes initiative, follows through on commitments, and asks thoughtful questions when needed.
- Comfortable joining an existing codebase and contributing with limited hand-holding.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1–3 years of AWS experience or familiarity with AWS services, particularly Lambda.
- Experience with Snowflake.
- Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
- Financial services industry experience.
- Additional database or DBA experience.
